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Surratt

[ suh-rat ]

noun

  1. Mary Eugenia (Jenkins), 1820–65, alleged conspirator: boardinghouse owner hanged as accomplice in assassination of President Lincoln.


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Robin Wright portrays Surratt as a stoic and sympathetic figure, certain to win over filmgoers just as she did her lawyer.

Surratt was hanged, despite her apparent innocence, and the scene is both vivid and lurid as onlookers celebrate.

The nation had never executed a woman, and until Surratt heads to the gallows, Aiken thought he could save her.

Of the remaining thirty-four there were nine whose testimony was directed to the incrimination of Mrs. Surratt.

And as to Mrs. Surratt, the only witnesses of importance against her are Weichman and Lloyd.

This man Lloyd it was who, in fact, furnished the only bit of evidence directly connecting Mrs. Surratt with the crime.

Last, there emerges from the dungeon-like darkness of the doorway the single female prisoner, Mary E. Surratt.

They sentence “Mary E. Surratt to be hanged by the neck until she be dead.”

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